PINE, John (1690-1756). A Chart shewing the Several Places of Action between the English and Spanish Fleets, London, 1739, fine hand-coloured engraved map with elaborate border (very lightly browned and spotted at centrefold), 370 x 592mm., unframed.

PINE, John (1690-1756), Hubert-François GRAVELOT (1699-1733) & Clement LEMPRIERE (1683-1746).  A Chart Shewing the Several Places of Action between the English and Spanish Fleets, with the Places where Several of the Spanish Ships were Destroyed in their Return to Spain, North about the British Islands. [London:] John Pine, 1739. Fine hand-coloured engraved map of the British Isles by John Pine and Hubert-François Gravelot after Clement Lempriere within elaborate decorative border, blank on verso (very lightly browned and spotted at centrefold), 370 x 592mm., unframed. The border of the map is particularly dramatic, filled with battling allegorical figures in various states of disarray and forked lightning, and with illustrations of sea-battles in roundels. The engraving is taken from Pine's The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets (London, 1739) which reproduced tapestries commissioned in 1591 to celebrate the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Pine's publication proved particularly fortuitous: the original tapestries on which it was based were completely consumed in the fire which destroyed the Palace of Westminster in 1834. "In 1739 Pine published 'The Tapestry Hangings of the house of Lords ...' with portraits, charts of the coasts of England, medals, &c. As these valuable tapestries, executed by H. C. Vroom to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish armada, were subsequently destroyed by fire, Pine's engravings, done from drawings by C. Lempriere, are of the greatest historical value" (DNB).